>Were they plumbers?
Dang. Break in a day off.
news breaks day of
Bet they were setting up some wiretaps
Watergate Secrets: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the White House Plumbers
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A crack team of ex-CIA and FBI operatives nicknamed the White House ‘plumbers’ were supposed to stop intelligence leaks that could damage Richard Nixon - instead, the bumbling crooks brought down the president.
The trouble started when five burglars in surgical gloves crept into the Democratic National Committee HQ onJune 17, 1972carrying a walkie-talkie, a short-wave police scanner, 40 rolls of unexposed film, electronic bugging devices, and a wad of $100 bills.
An astute 24-year-old night watchman, Frank Wills, noticed a piece of duct tape on the latch of a door, however, and called the police.